Media Release
August 10, 2004
Is jackboot politics back on the European agenda?
The spectre of the rise of Nazism in World War II has lived long and large – an example of the extreme right, viewed clearly by the democratic world, as extremely wrong.
So more than 50 years on in Europe, the rise of the politics of the extreme right in all its forms, rattles the democratic chains like nothing else can.
On August 16, 2004 UniSA’s Hawke Research Institute will welcome one of the world’s leading specialists in political extremism, Professor Cas Mudde, Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp and co-founder of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy in the European Consortium for Political Research.
Professor Mudde will present a free seminar The European Far Right: is the Extreme Right extreme right? And if not – what is it? at UniSA’s Magill Campus, de Lissa Building Room G172-73 from 12.30 to 2pm.
Professor Mudde is the author of Western Democracies and the New Extreme Right Challenge in which he argues that rather than right-wing and extremist, the core ideology of many of these parties is xenophobic and nationalist, including a mix of law and order and welfare chauvinism.
He explores the gathering of support for the extreme right in many Western countries including Austria, France and Italy and the rise in racist violence, initially aimed at 'immigrants' across the European Union.
He will also pose and answer questions about how democratic societies should respond to extreme right parties and how those responses may affect the very core of democracy and civil societies.
More information
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Stephen McKenzie office (08) 8302 4581 email stephen.mckenzie@unisa.edu.au
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